| Teaser Text | Britain emerged from the War battered, bruised and hopelessly in debt. The immediate post-war years saw a raft of legislation aimed at getting the country back on its feet, and by 1957 there was optimism in the air as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan uttered those immortal words: Youve never had it so good.
The age of rock n roll, consumerism and the Baby Boom had dawned.
Street cleansing was being brought into the modern world too, with adverts for electric street sweepers and diesel collection vehicles appearing in the monthly journal of the Institute of Public Cleansing, including this one from the Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain.
Now called Public Cleansing and Salvage, the journal was, in 1957, beginning to tackle the issue of training and education, and the difficulty of attracting bright young entrants to the industry.
Februarys editorial addressed this question: One of the handicaps which hinders entry into the Cleansing Service is the virtual absence of national and organised tuition |
